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Bill Berkowitz: Brownback's Mountain
Friday, 2 March 2007, 11:43 am | Bill Berkowitz
Although branding himself a 'full scale conservative' and hoping to win support from the religious right, the Kansas Republican has an uphill climb to the nomination More >>
Conservatives launch Families First on Immigration
Tuesday, 13 February 2007, 9:03 am | Bill Berkowitz
Unlike last year's Evangelical Climate Initiative, an attempt to build bridges to combat global warming that drew headlines and stunned some longtime "traditional values" conservative evangelicals, the newly formed "Families First on Immigration" ... More >>
Berkowitz: Dubya's Half-Billion Tower Of Babel
Saturday, 27 January 2007, 10:06 pm | Bill Berkowitz
After six years of incompetence and cronyism, a failed war against terrorism, the quagmire that is Iraq, wars against science, the environment, corporate regulation and the public's right-to-know, a chummy working relationship with the country's ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Black Voters Nix Republicans
Monday, 15 January 2007, 3:47 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Despite the calculated outreach efforts by the Bush Administration, spearheaded by Ken Mehlman, the former head of the Republican National Committee, to turn the Black vote, exit polling from the 2006 election showed that close to 90 percent of Black ... More >>
Berkowitz: End Times For The Christian Coalition?
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 10:43 pm | Bill Berkowitz
On September 19, 2005, Jason Christy, the head of Christy Media and the publisher and editor-in-chief of The Church Report, a national news and business journal for pastors and Christian leaders, was named executive director of the Christian Coalition ... More >>
Pacific Legal Foundation On Wrong Side Of History
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 10:33 pm | Bill Berkowitz
In early December several hundred pro-affirmative action demonstrators carrying signs reading "Fight for Equality" gathered outside the U.S. Supreme Court to witness to an historic occasion. For the first time since the ground breaking 1954 Brown v. ... More >>
Berkowitz: End times for the Christian Coalition?
Friday, 22 December 2006, 10:13 am | Bill Berkowitz
On September 19, 2005, Jason Christy, the head of Christy Media and the publisher and editor-in-chief of The Church Report, a national news and business journal for pastors and Christian leaders, was named executive director of the Christian Coalition ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Kenneth Tomlinson's Reappointment
Monday, 18 December 2006, 12:32 am | Bill Berkowitz
On November 14, in a move indicative of President Bush's intention to continue to surround himself with political cronies with questionable ethics records, Kenneth L. Tomlinson was re-nominated by the president as chairman of the Broadcasting Board ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Unethical Weapon Of Mass Deception
Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 2:37 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Since the inception of the Iraq war, and even during the run-up to the invasion, the Bush Administration aimed to control the news about, and from, Iraq. Early on, embedded reporters told moving, albeit questionable stories about the toppling of ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Charles Colson's Complaint
Saturday, 2 December 2006, 9:42 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Those opposed to faith-based prison projects are blind to the threat of terrorism in the "homeland" from former inmates who have converted to Islam while in America's prisons, Charles Colson, one of President Richard Nixon's key operatives during the ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Neil Bush's Family Values
Monday, 27 November 2006, 5:40 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Two years ago, when Neil Bush and his mother, the former first lady Barbara Bush, were featured guests at a $1,000-a-table fundraiser for the Western Heights School District in Oklahoma City, proceeds from the event were specifically earmarked for ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Ted Haggard's November Surprise
Monday, 13 November 2006, 11:33 am | Bill Berkowitz
About a week before Karl Rove and Team Bush received its November Surprise, Pastor Ted Haggard got one of his own. As voters in Colorado and six other states were preparing to vote on ballot initiatives banning gay marriage (six states including Colorado ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Faith-Based Confidential
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 11:28 am | Bill Berkowitz
David Kuo's new book 'Tempting Faith' confirms that the faith-based initiative is little more than part of a political-religious patronage system More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Falwell Builds His Legacy
Friday, 27 October 2006, 2:31 pm | Bill Berkowitz
After 50 years behind the pulpit at the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, and nearly 30 years in the political spotlight, the Rev. Jerry Falwell has a lot to be proud of. While he hasn't achieved the iconic status of the Rev. ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Viguerie To GOP - Fuhgedaboutit
Monday, 16 October 2006, 12:22 am | Bill Berkowitz
With the Republican Party in disarray and control of the U.S. Congress at stake in the upcoming November elections, a host of top-shelf conservative Christian leaders are still sticking with the GOP despite the Foley Scandal and the quagmire in Iraq. ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Bodies Without Passports
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 1:15 pm | Bill Berkowitz
Nancy Scheper-Hughes opens her provocative essay entitled "Biopiracy and the Global Quest for Human Organs," with a scene taken from Stephen Frears' film "Dirty Pretty Things." Okwe, an illegal Nigerian immigrant doctor, framed in his homeland and forced ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: The Conversion Factor
Thursday, 5 October 2006, 2:49 pm | Bill Berkowitz
As Christian evangelicals in the United States grow their support for Israel, conversion of Jews to Christianity continues to be a thorny issue for both Christians and Jews. More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Keith Olbermann's finest hour
Thursday, 14 September 2006, 11:21 am | Bill Berkowitz
On Wednesday, August 30, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann had his Edward R. Murrow moment and he made the most of it. In a thoughtful and hard-hitting six-minute commentary, Olbermann, the host of "Countdown," responded to the new campaign launched by the ... More >>
Bill Berkowitz: Bush Names New Faith-Based Czar
Friday, 8 September 2006, 12:09 am | Bill Berkowitz
The appointment of Jay Hein, a relatively unknown right-wing think tanker, to head the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives may be a sign that the George W. Bush administration has just about thrown in the towel on promoting ... More >>
The Dudley Do-Wrong of George Mason University
Friday, 8 September 2006, 12:01 am | Bill Berkowitz
When the George Mason University Patriots played their way into the final four of this year's NCAA men's national basketball championships, some called it the biggest NCAA Cinderella story of all time. While that feel-good moment brought the university ... More >>
